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EU court rejects Bank Tejarat’s challenge to its re-listing

The General Court of the EU has dismissed another challenge to an EU decision to re-list an Iranian entity that won its challenge to its original sanctions designation. A link to the judgment is here. The Court regularly now upholds decisions to re-list entities on the revised basis that they provide support for the Government of Iran, in circumstances in which the EU could not sustain the original reasons given for their inclusion (usually on the grounds that they support Iran’s nuclear programme).

Bank Tejarat’s original listing was annulled in January 2015 (see previous blog) then it was re-listed in April 2015 (blog here). The General Court has said its re-listing was not unlawful essentially because it was based (inter alia) on the fact that it supports the Iranian Government by offering financial resources and services for oil and gas development projects which is a significant source of Government funding.

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About Maya Lester QC

Maya Lester QC has a wide ranging practice in public law, European law, competition law, international law, human rights & civil liberties. She has a particular expertise in sanctions. As the most recent (2016) Chambers & Partners directory put it, she "owns the world of sanctions". She spent 2011-12 in New York at Columbia Law School lecturing and writing on sanctions. She represents and advises hundreds of companies and individuals before the European and English courts and has acted in most of the leading cases, including Kadi, Tay Za, Central Bank of Iran, NITC and IRISL.